Following an arbitration meeting on Aug. 4, Blues restricted free agent defenseman Joel Edmundson was awarded a one-year contract worth $3.1 million on Tuesday. According to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, the Blues were looking for closer to $2.3 million, while Edmundson wanted $4.2 million. MORE: Complete list of all 31 teams’ UFA, RFA players “We are glad to have Joel under contract for next season,” noted Blues general manager Doug Armstrong in the team’s news release....

Julius Jones was sentenced to death in a 1999 killing that gained national attention. Jones has maintained his innocence in the case, which was profiled in a three-episode documentary, The Last Defense, produced by actress Viola Davis and aired on ABC in 2018. Since then, Kardashian West, Young and other athletes, including Russell Westbrook and Blake Griffin, have advocated for Jones, urging Republican Governor Kevin Stitt to commute the death sentence....

The Bundesliga champions host Real Madrid at the Allianz Arena on Wednesday as both sides seek to secure a first-leg advantage in the fight for a final berth. Ronaldo, the competition’s all-time top scorer, will be integral to the visitors’ hopes, having netted the decisive penalty to see off Juventus in the last eight. The 33-year-old celebrated that stoppage-time winner in typically exuberant style, dispatching his shirt and roaring with delight....

The news that 64-year-old Bob Costas is passing the torch to Mike Tirico after 24 years as NBC Sports’ primetime Olympics host underlines, once again, how much the sports TV business is changing. In recent months, we’ve seen 61-year-old Chris Berman accept an emeritus role after 31 years at ESPN and 76-year-old Verne Lundquist and 77-year-old Brent Musburger call their final college games after more than four decades apiece on the air....

MORE: North Carolina-Duke rivalry through the years As the longest-tenured play-by-play announcer in ACC history, Harris, who calls Blue Devils football and men’s basketball games, enters the 2016 football season with an active streak of 459 consecutive games announced, a run that began Sept. 11, 1976. But Harris — who has called 1,358 Blue Devils men’s basketball games, including 104 against Duke’s archrival, North Carolina — is perhaps best known for that work because of the program’s success under coach Mike Krzyzewski....

It was all true, though. Knight had been dismissed by the IU administration and would not be back to coach the team in the 2000-01 season. The university found he had violated the zero-tolerance policy installed against him the prior spring and chose no longer to employ the state’s most famous and popular figure. He would not be back at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall until Saturday, when Indiana fans who longed for the opportunity merely to say thank you got their chance at halftime of the Hoosiers’ game against Purdue....

But even Ley has his limits. In this case, it was FIFA’s actions in the run-up to Friday’s election. MORE: Timeline of Wednesday’s FIFA scandal | Major sponsor concerned about scandal Ley got so frustrated at one point on the broadcast he actually took a FIFA news release and ripped it in half. Keep in mind, this was before we even got to the election or the results of said election....

The event at Indiana Farmers’ Coliseum comes a week before Indiana’s GOP primary, which looms as an important one for Trump. A new strategy unveiled by fellow GOP candidates Ted Cruz and John Kasich to block Trump from winning the party’s nomination hinges on Cruz defeating Trump in Indiana, TheHill.com notes. The latest RealClearPolitics average of polls has Trump leading Cruz by more than six points in the Hoosier State....

The report comes just days after the high-profile search was dealt a blow when police said that “human organic material” was found near a spot along a remote river where the two men were last seen. Phillips, who has lived in Brazil for over a decade, had been writing a book about sustainable development in the area, while Pereira was assisting him as an expert field guide. An aide to Brazil’s ambassador to the United Kingdom delivered the latest discovery to members of Phillips’ family during a phone call early on Monday, according to The Guardian....

Michel Faro Prado of Praia Grande, Brazil had liposuction and a tummy tuck in March 2021. His surgeon removed extra skin and, at Michel’s request, his belly button. Michel told Zenger that he recovered well but noticed later that the doctor had left a small amount of excess skin behind. He had corrective surgery on June 28. And then his body refused to heal. “The days went by and his stitches began opening,” said Carol, his tattooed wife of 10 years....

The lapels, once flapping in the wind incurred by Boeheim chasing down a referee after the game ended on a controversial call, commanded a whopping $14,000 at auction. Saturday's Basket Ball gala was an annual event hosted by Boeheim and his wife, Juli, to raise money for the couple's foundation. which aims to "enrich the lives of kids in need within our Central New York community, as well as provide support for eliminating cancer through research and advocacy....

The Norwegian Air Boeing 787 was flying from Rome to Los Angeles on Saturday when it ran into problems less than half an hour after its departure. People living in the town of Isola Sacra told the Corriere Della Sera they saw pieces of glowing metal come down from the sky. Many picked up the fragments, which were around three inches long, from the street. The newspaper reported that if the flight had continued for a few minutes longer, the pieces of “burning debris could have hit the center of town, or the crowded beaches of the Roman coast,” adding that it “could have been much worse....

As many researchers have noted, evidence on the issue increasingly suggests lobsters—as well as other crustaceans, like crabs—are sentient creatures that experience pain. Stephanie Yu, Ph.D. notes, in a report for The Humane Society of the United States, that “there exists robust scientific evidence in support of crustaceans being sentient animals with the capacity to suffer.” Despite that fact, she explains, “humane slaughter legislation in most of the world has not been interpreted as applying to crustaceans....

Starting Monday, April 4, any customer who purchases a 12 or 20 piece bone-in chicken Bojangles Family Meal will receive a $10 gas gift card, so long as supplies last, the company said in a statement. Jackie Woodward, Bojangles Chief Brand and Marketing Officer, wrote in the statement that the company doesn’t “want anyone to have to choose between enjoying a delicious meal with the family or buying gas,” adding, “Southerners are known for being friendly neighbors, so as a Southern brand, it’s in our DNA to want to help our customers who are feeling the pain of soaring gas prices....

Messi was sanctioned for verbally abusing linesman Emerson Carvalho towards the end of Tuesday’s 1-0 World Cup qualifying win over Chile. Messi given four-match ban He will be forced to sit out the game in La Paz, as well as further qualifiers against Uruguay, Peru and Venezuela as the race for Russia 2018 hots up. But according to Morales, the punishment is completely unreasonable and victimises the man he calls the “best player in the world”....

Within 24 hours police had arrested Michael Stevens, a 53-year-old ex-con and boyfriend of Brenda Lazore, another of Eleanor Fowler’s daughters, along with a friend, 56-year-old Earl Figley. The motive, according to police, may have been nothing more than resentment. Authorities say Stevens was angry that the family didn’t approve of his relationship with Lazore; the triggering event may have been a family Christmas party he was asked to leave....

Genetics, age, hormones, occupation, activity levels, lifestyle, and environmental factors all play a role in the development of bone disease. Here is what you need to know about the common causes and risk factors of various bone diseases. Common Causes There are many different types of bone diseases. Some of these conditions affect mostly adults, while others are considered childhood bone diseases. But many of these conditions can develop regardless of age and are attributed to different causes and risk factors other than age or in addition to age....

These agents have potentially serious risks and side effects, and not all cases of “low counts” are treated with these drugs. In the treatment of cancer, the use of bone marrow boosting drugs is considered supportive care, meaning that the drug does not directly fight cancer, but helps in other ways. Your Bone Marrow, Up Close Bone marrow is the living tissue that is packed inside the hollows of certain bones, especially the hipbones and the vertebrae, or the bones of the spinal column....

Why They Hate Bush As a retired journalist who reported for 36 years from New York, I can answer the question posed on your June 3 cover, “Does Europe Really Hate Him?” (Europe). Most people here not only despise George W. Bush and his collaborators, they consider him a more unpredictable disaster than his father and totally unworthy to occupy the White House or lead the free world. Some see him as a global terrorist who practices double standards: he receives war criminals as respected friends in the Oval Office, even as he uses full U....

“You work double time. You bring in waves of social workers because that’s what you need. You don’t need law enforcement badges. You need a lot of social workers to be out here on the front lines alongside border patrol to be able to process these children, because they’re children and they need a lot of care,” Villarreal said on the podcast Y’all-itics Monday. A record number of unaccompanied migrant children have arrived at the country’s southern border since the start of President Joe Biden’s administration, which has promised a full redress of the country’s immigration policies....